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Beltzner / Mozilla Developer News:
Firefox 3 Beta 1 now available for download — Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 Beta 1 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only. — Firefox 3 Beta 1 is now available for download.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Mozilla releases Firefox 3 beta 1 — A few months later than had been planned, Mozilla released on Monday night the first beta version of an overhauled Firefox, the widely used open-source Web browser. — Firefox 3 beta 1 includes a number of significant features that Mozilla said should improve security …
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Bill Ray / The Register:
Firefox version 3 makes beta — New features for the brave, or foolhardy — Version 3 of Firefox, the alternative web browser of choice, is now available to download for its first beta test. — After 27 months of hard work the Gecko 1.9 rendering engine has been integrated …
Mozilla:
Firefox 3 Beta 1 Release Notes — Firefox 3 Beta 1 is a developer preview release of Mozilla's next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only. — These beta releases are targeted to Web developers and our testing community to gain feedback before advancing …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Firefox 3 Beta 1: The Memory Use Says It All — I've been a long time Firefox fanboy. I was one of the 10,000 people who contributed, and had their name featured in the NY Times back in 2004. I've long preached to anyone who would listen that Firefox is a better alternative to Internet Explorer …
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
First look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 — I noticed that the Beta 1 for Firefox 3.0 was made available sometime yesterday. I've been curious as to whether the Firefox dev team would do a serious revamp for this release or just concentrate on bug fixes and performance improvements.
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
First Look: Amazon's Kindle Reader: The Gap Between Description and The Device — After today's festivities concluded, I eventually got a chance to sit down and play with Amazon's (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle. The first thing to note is that the screen isn't like reading actual paper.
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The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) — Act I: The act of buying … Jeff Bezos, Open letter to Author's Guild, 2002 … Amazon, Kindle Terms of Service, 2007 — Act II: The act of giving … Richard Stallman, The Right to Read … Newsweek, The Future of Reading — Act III: The act of lending
CNN:
Vodafone Gets Restraining Order On T-Mobile's iPhone Sales — DUESSELDORF -(Dow Jones)- The German unit of Vodafone Group PLC (VOD) has obtained a restraining order against Deutsche Telekom AG's (DT) T-Mobile unit prohibiting the German telecommunications giant from selling Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone in Germany.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
1GB write-once SanDisk memory cards to cost $5.99? — Remember how Sandisk was flirting with read-only, cheap-archival storage based on their new "3D memory' back in February? Well, it sounds like they're about to commit. We just received a tip from a SanDisk customer who took a survey about a proposed write-once memory card.
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Corey Boles / SmartMoney.com:
Senators Urge FTC To Review Google-DoubleClick Deal Closely — WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Two senior lawmakers urged the Federal Trade Commission to only approve Google Inc.'s (GOOG) takeover of Internet advertising company DoubleClick Inc. if it concludes there will be no adverse impact …
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Charlie White / Gizmodo:
Best Buy Black Friday Bonus Doorbusters Announced [Black Friday] — Just as we suspected, Best Buy has been holding out on us with the Black Friday Dealios. Top of the list of these Bonus Doorbuster deals is a notebook, a Toshiba A135-7404 for $229 that will also include a Canon all-in-one printer.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Meebo's Got Game — If you're looking for a killer app on the Internet and are unwilling to get into pornography, gaming is your best bet. So when Meebo opened their platform last month to third party developers, it was clearly only a matter of time before they let game startups in. That time has come.
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BBC:
Discs with 15m bank details lost — Confidential details of 15 million child benefit recipients are on computer discs lost by HM Revenue and Customs, the BBC understands. — The chairman of the organisation, Paul Gray, has resigned. — Revenue and Customs says it does not believe the records …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Viddler's New Tag-Based Advertising System — This past Thursday, Viddler launched an advertising system that lets companies and individuals overlay advertisements at variously tagged points within the videos it hosts. The system is very similar to Google Adwords, except advertisements …
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Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
'Tree-V' TVs coming out of the woodwork — Everyone knows about LCDs and plasmas, but another fight over TV materials is looming over another commodity: trees. — Apparently trying to cash in on the green trend, some manufacturers have been designing flat-panel frames made of wood and other natural sustainable substances.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Death Of The Internet Greatly Exaggerated (By Those Who Stand To Benefit) — Well, here we go again. For well over a decade now, someone will come along every few months or so and claim that the internet is about to be overwhelmed by traffic and will collapse.
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